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betterlifegroup.co.za

Home Loans | Personal Loans | Insurance - Betterlife

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

670 ms

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

161 ms

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About Website

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The Betterlife Group offers comprehensive financial solutions including home loans, personal loans, life insurance and short term insurance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Betterlifegroup.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 670 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

betterlifegroup.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

betterlifegroup.co.za

670 ms

www.betterlife.co.za

912 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

185 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

187 ms

custom-styles.css

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Betterlifegroup.co.za, 73% (67 requests) were made to Betterlife.co.za and 4% (4 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.1 sec) relates to the external source Betterlife.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 979.4 kB (71%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

398.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Betterlifegroup.co.za main page is 1.4 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 949.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 54.5 kB
  • After compression 11.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 46.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 129.8 kB
  • After minification 125.1 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Betterlife Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 731.1 kB

  • Original 949.4 kB
  • After minification 744.8 kB
  • After compression 218.4 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 731.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 197.7 kB

  • Original 241.5 kB
  • After minification 211.5 kB
  • After compression 43.8 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Betterlifegroup.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 197.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (89%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Betterlife Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Betterlifegroup.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Betterlifegroup.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Betterlife Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: